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Word: itemize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Railroad, Armour. Frigidaire, International Harvester, Lockheed, Greyhound, and 87 other big corporations. With a staff numbering less than 250, he has boldly taken on all comers. He designed the Studebaker car, the Lucky Strike package, refrigerators, stoves, radios, lipstick tubes, locomotives, ships, department stores, pens, and thousands of other items. (Almost the only item he refuses to work on is coffins, because "you can't improve on death.") All told, the gross sales of products he designed, or packaged, currently add up to more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Designer of Dreams | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...received but a lukewarm response in the Harvard Square area. Of 15 local merchants polled in a CRIMSON survey, the only one to comply completely with President Truman's request was Brice's Sporting Goods Store; which announced yesterday "an across the board cut of 10 percent on every item in the house...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Few Local Merchants Heed Truman Request for Voluntary Price Slashes | 4/26/1947 | See Source »

Removing so expensive an item as Reynolds Packard from the U.P. payroll called for more than a routine cable. U.P. president Hugh Baillie personally ordered Reynolds fired. Walter Rundle, China bureau chief at Shanghai, flew to Peiping to break the news. The U.P. was fed up with such Packard specials as the Russian "evacuation" of Dairen last fall, the "human-headed spider" he discovered near Peiping, and the discovery of a Russian atomic bomb plant on Lake Baikal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: China Incident | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...Sunny Smile. There are plenty of bright young wheels in the ABC machine. The biggest, Executive V.P. Bob Kintner (who was once half of the Alsop & Kintner column-writing team), is only 37. But the most important item in the plant is "The Oilcan"-easygoing, 47-year-old Mark Woods.* Mark is one of the best-liked men in radio, and one of the shrewdest. A near-genius at negotiation, he is often asked to handle the industry's top-level labor relations. Lapped in Mark's sunny smile, even the wintry Petrillo has been known to thaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Network Without Ulcers | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...Fleas also have their cultural aspects. For centuries, they have been used as entertainers in flea circuses. In Goethe's Faust, Mephistopheles sings of "a king, A lovely queen had he-But dearer far than queen or son. He loved a big black flea. . . ." Upon this item Russian Composer Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky based his Song of the Flea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fleas of the Golden West | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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